Hello lovely readers. I hope you're enjoying a relaxing weekend. I'm back in full force after a major blogging hiatus. Spring time at work has been fast and furious... I feel like I'm sprinting to the finish line that is summer vacation. But I finally caught my tail for a second, so here I am.
Today I'm posting about how we can re-mineralize our nutrient depleted bodies. I was shocked to read from multiple health sources that almost all of us are walking around with some sort of mineral deficiency. Almost "80% of the population is low in magnesium. Minerals like Zinc and Selenium are in 50-70% range, depending on the source you read" (Kevin Gianni, Health Renegade). A lot of us who eat a diet rich in alkaline minerals from mostly fruits and vegetables think we're doing the best we can, but in reality, we still may not be getting all our body needs to function optimally. We're missing out on the major minerals our bodies need (calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, sulfur, manganese, iron, copper, zinc, iodine, chloride, selenium and many many more).
Minerals are required for all of our metabolic process. Not only are they important for proper composition of our body fluids and the formation of our blood and bones, but they're also critical for our nerve function. Every second of every day our bodies depend on minerals to generate billions of tiny electric impulses throughout our nervous system. Our hearts would stop, our muscles would freeze and our brain would black out if minerals were not available to our bodies in the right amounts and right form.
Unfortunately, now more than ever, minerals are depleted from our soils or destroyed in the cooking process of almost all the foods we eat. "The 1997 edition of Food Composition Handbook shows a 25-50% decline in mineral content of foods since the last survey was done in 1975. This decline suggests a steady deterioration in soil, air and water quality as well." Not good!
In a perfect world, all of us would have easy access to high quality, locally grown organic fresh fruits and vegetables as the foundation of our diet. (I wish!!) But if you've seen food documentaries like Food Inc. or Fresh! or even followed Michale Pollan or any other food journalist, you know that due to large-scale corporate farming it's very unlikely for the average person to find quality produce in the supermarket or even an organic market. So it's important to supplement my diet with additional alkaline minerals as a little extra "mineral insurance," if you will. Even if our food sources are far below optimal, there are some easy ways to get additional minerals into your body so that it may heal itself and stay healthy:
1. Green Juicing: kale, celery, spinach, parsley combined with some zippy ginger and lemon citrus. Maybe even a small sweet apple. You have yourself a delicious mineral tonic and it's a great way to therapeutically raise your level of nutrients, particularly minerals.
2. Marine Phytoplankton: Phytoplankton are micro algae or unicellular plants that provide virtually all living creatures of the sea with nutrition and minerals. Marine phytoplankton contains a unique combination of balanced nutrients including Omega-3 essential fatty acids, vitamins, sea MINERALS, amino acids and trace elements. Vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, C, D and major trace minerals are all present in marine phytoplankton.
3. Green Powder: When you can't get a fresh green juice, a good green powder added to your water or smoothies is an easy way to increase your intake of greens, alkaline minerals and trace minerals. I personally like Ormus Greens and Vitamineral Greens.
4. Seaweeds: Seaweed is a valuable source of nutrients, primarily minerals. Sea vegetables contain 10-20 times the minerals of land vegetables and provide us with all 56 minerals and trace minerals we need. Gram for gram, seaweeds are higher in minerals than any other kind of food. Add dried dulse, nori or kelp into your soups or sprinkled on top of your salads.
♥♥ Cheers to good health
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